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moreliacuck t1_iy3ppzs wrote

Reply to comment by __The__Anomaly__ in Mexico's Lopez Obrador leads massive pro-government march by Miserable-Lizard

Well pretty much he is traying with different degrees of succes to fix the systematic corruption of almost 90 years of prior governemt, but there is still a lot of opossition by the mexican equivalent of trumpist like the ones that dominate mexican sub reddits

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Proud_Wallaby t1_iy43zus wrote

That’s interesting. My Mexican ex-wife would say that he wanted to be like Trump, but was more stupid. She didn’t like him, but couldn’t ever explain very well why. The only thing that made any sense was that according to her, him trying to fix corruption is a joke as he is corrupt himself.

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Ok_Goat8830 t1_iy5hnri wrote

It's very interesting indeed, given how both Trump and AMLO are extremely populist. Both have dictatorial aspirations but are exceedingly inept to succeed at them. Also, both president's followers think they are supreme, uncorruptible, messiah-like beings who will magically change everything, and would follow them to their deaths.

Needless to say, after push comes to shove migrants still abound in the US and americans are still losing their jobs (the two main concerns of Trump); plus there are more deaths to violence than ever before in Mexico, and the country is just as corrupt as always.

So yeah, calling the opposition trumpist-like is interesting and I've never heard that before.

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moreliacuck t1_iy47exj wrote

What he has been steadily doing is cutting overspending, collecting taxea from the riches ( on friday the government won a case against one of thr most corrupt bank on the country as the owned more than 500 m dlls on taxes) and increasing well fare to help people not rely on the narco jobs, all this with diffent degrees of acceptance, also the old regime is still pretty strong (just the former president stole a little bit more than 300 billon dlls, that's a lot of money too keep interfering on the country

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__The__Anomaly__ t1_iy3x2sf wrote

I hope he has some success and will also set a good example for future politicians.

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